World English Bible

John 8:22

“The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?”

Verse in context — John 8

Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come.

The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?

He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.

A theological portrait of Jesus as the Son of God who brings eternal life.